Aileen Cooper (right), who worked at Bright Horizons Rothamsted Little Stars Nursery in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, secured a legal victory on 31 July after the High Court found the nursery group to be liable for her severe disability, caused by placing a baby in a defective cot.
The incident caused Ms Cooper to develop a rare condition known as Cauda Equina Sydrome.
The judge ruled that Bright Horizons failed to follow its own health and safety risk assessments even though it knew Ms Cooper already had a bad back. The nursery group required her to use faulty cots, which also breached its own manual handling procedures.
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